Page 80 of Bat Wings and Motor Oil
Rex laughed, “You got it.”
Jessie reached across the cab and ruffled his brother’s hair. “Good.”I love you.
Rex swatted his hands away. “And you’re still going to go make me talk to the Devil?”
“Yeah, well, Nik and Katarina are holding down the fort. Plus, and you’re sworn to secrecy on this one or so help me, Rex, they can’t know what we discuss with him.” Jessie took adeep breath in through his nose as they crept up to the front gate of Knox Zrazduel’s home in the depths of the woods.Nik might try to stop me. And I don’t want to put this pressure on Katarina. But I swore I was going to take care of them both.
Since the night at the Casino, Gillian Hurley was a personal gnat. He showed up at the shop all the time despite everything. He picked fights with Nik, all his buddies nearby as if they’d catch Nik punching Gill’s lights out. Nik, to his credit, was cool as a cucumber. Especially knowing that Katarina won full custody of Isabella. None of the Hurley family was allowed to see Bella without Katarina present or prior court approval. And, apparently, the Lord Commander still held a soft spot for Katarina. He’d strong armed the council and blocked every single appeal Gill tried. Turns out when a mad-man tries to blow up the city, The Lich in the woods is none too pleased and the council is more afraid of him than of appeasing old debts to Bjorn. If it wasn’t Blightwood thwarting Gill, it was Sera. She’d left the firm to work for Jessie directly as his legal council. Gill couldn’t touch Katarina, and it drove him mad.
Jessie didn’t like the ticking timebomb he’d become, and he had his fill of those for one lifetime. It was time to take care of the pest once and for all.
Nik would say, ‘I can take an annoying pest yelling at me. He makes all the other customers feel bad for me and they are ten times nicer because of it’. And Katarina would ask him not to do anything dangerous that could get him in trouble. Which isexactlywhy Jessie wasn’t leaving it up to himself. When it came to things like this, it was best to put a guy like Knox Zrazduel on it. That’s what makes a good boss, knowing the right employee for the job.
Jessie was about to ask the Devil of King’s Fall to kill his girl’s ex-husband. Then he was going to take his baby brother to take a tour of the university.Then, fuck it, I might go grab some pizza with Elliot! Maybe he’ll bring Cassie with us, and she can writean expose on Bjorn!He’d even give her the inside scoop, as much as he could—and maybe skip the parts where he was in heat during the middle of all that. But, man, was it one hell of a story!
